# Copyright 2017-present Michael Hall # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. import html.parser import re __all__ = ["html_to_text"] WhitespaceHandler = re.compile("

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  • ", flags=re.MULTILINE) # The below is semi-safe for use here, # wouldn't reccomend copying this without understanding it. # html cleanup is taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/7778368 # with some modifications made to better suit the needs of this. class HTMLTextExtractor(html.parser.HTMLParser): # https://stackoverflow.com/a/7778368 def __init__(self): super().__init__() self.result = [] def handle_data(self, d): self.result.append(d) def get_text(self): return "".join(self.result) def html_to_text(html_data): # https://stackoverflow.com/a/7778368 """Converts HTML to plain text (stripping tags and converting entities). >>> html_to_text('Demo (¬ \u0394ημώ)') 'Demo (\xac \u0394\u03b7\u03bc\u03ce)' "Plain text" doesn't mean result can safely be used as-is in HTML. >>> html_to_text('<script>alert("Hello");</script>') '' Always use html.escape to sanitize text before using in an HTML context! HTMLParser will do its best to make sense of invalid HTML. >>> html_to_text('x < y < z